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The learning champion promotes learning within their sphere of influence. They embrace their own experiences as a learner and share them with others. They are an individual who helps others learn, and promotes both internal and external learning opportunities. They are someone who extends the reach to places which can be hard to reach.

Teachers who sew together the fabric of our society sow the seeds of a more prosperous nation at the same time. However, the picture of education in South Africa as it is unfolding on school grounds and classrooms across the country, is complex, messy and often not easy to witness.
What should give us hope for the potential of our children?

Spotlight on : Sustainable Development 2018
Exploring new policy pathways
How to overcome obstacles and contradictions in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
Report by the Civil Society Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
When UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda, they signaled with the title Transforming our World that it should trigger fundamental changes in politics and society. With this Agenda governments committed to

The Internet Society (ISOC) aims to make the Internet available for everyone, everywhere. ISOC works with industry, government, academia, and other organizations worldwide to support innovation and growth of the open Internet. For over 25 years, ISOC has helped to connect individuals in virtually every country to the Internet.

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is commonly understood as education that encourages changes in knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to enable a more sustainable and just society for all. ESD aims to empower and equip current and future generations to meet their needs using a balanced and integrated approach to the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
For more about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD refer to http://unesdoc.unesco.org

Digital technology brings efficiencies but it also brings disruption and radically new ways of engaging and doing business. For countries and organisations that are ready for digital and have a workforce that is geared to ‘run with the machine’, digital has the potential to uncover new value, create and redesign more jobs than those being lost and boost growth significantly. However, for countries like South Africa that are less prepared, digital may bring more job losses than gains—which will negatively impact the socio-economic wellbeing of individuals and the economy.

Charities Aid Foundation Southern Africa is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes and facilitates effective giving, volunteering and social investment. CAF Southern Africa has been represented in South Africa since 1997, and in 2000 became a registered Section 21 not-for-profit and public benefit organisation.
While being a wholly South African organisation, CAF Southern Africa is also a member of the CAF Global Alliance of the Charities Aid Foundation, with headquarters in the United Kingdom.

The South African National LGBTI HIV Plan 2017-2022 (LGBTI HIV Plan) was developed to guide the work of all LGBTI stakeholders and implementers in South Africa. The Plan is inclusive of all sexual minorities living in South Africa, and recommends evidence-based and multi-sectoral HIV interventions to address the HIV epidemic in the country.

South Africa’s Theme for World AIDS Day Commemorations: past and present In 2011, the focus was on universal access to treatment – ‘zero AIDS-related deaths’. In 2012, the attention shifted to HIV prevention and ‘zero new infections’, while World AIDS Day 2014 emphasised the role of stigma and discrimination with ‘zero discrimination’ as the theme. In 2015, World AIDS Day celebrated the role of communities in the response to HIV with the theme ‘Rise. Act. Protect’; while last year’s theme was “It is in our hands to end HIV and TB”.